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Article: `Ghost nets' haunt waters: Abandoned fishing gear endangers marine life.(The Seattle Times)
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- June 26, 2002
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REID HARBOR, Wash. _ As killer whales breached nearby and curious seals checked out the underwater work crew, teams of divers last week bundled up and brought to the surface a 300- to 400-foot chunk of fishing net that had been snagged on an underwater pinnacle just south of Stuart Island since sometime last fall.
The abandoned purse seine _ a "ghost net," as divers call them _ continued trapping and killing lingcod and rockfish, rare long box crabs, and it definitely was a hazard for recreational divers.
It was "waving around like giant bedsheets on a clothesline," said Doug Williams, a master senior diver with the state Department of Natural Resources, ...